ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Placed in the canon; sainted; consecrated, beatified, deified. † Canonized epistles: cf. CANONICAL 3.

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1382.  Wyclif, James, Prol. Not the same ordre is at Greekis … of the seuen epistoelis that ben clepid canonysid.

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c. 1410.  Promp. Parv., 60. Canonyzyde, canonizatus.

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1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. iii. 63. Brazen Images of Canonized Saints. Ibid. (1602), Ham., I. iv. 47. Thy Canoniz’d bones Hearsed in death.

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1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 49. Acting as if in presence of canonized forefathers.

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1827.  Pollok, Course Time, IV. The lofty seat Of canonizèd bards.

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1886.  T. Hardy, Woodlanders, iv. No canonised antique.

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